From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- greatly august; much-revered
Meaning
The compound intensifies σεμνός in addresses to goddesses and to Silenos, the nurse of Bakchos. Reverence is shared despite their different functions. At XXVI.6 the apparatus reports πολύσεπτε against adopted πολύσεμνε: their senses overlap, but the distinct Greek formations should remain retrievable.
Places to read
- Hymn II · Line 1Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
πολύσεμνε
Occurrence inventory
5 in total. II.1; XXII.9; XXVI.6; LIV.1; LXI.3